Radiator-support



(No Model.)

R. M. PRLL.l

RADIATOR SUPPORT.

Patented Apr.. 12, 1887 v l@ llllli -Illlllll llllllll LII PETERS Pholo'L-lhographnr. Washixiglnn, D. (L

e UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FLMERM. FELL, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

RADIATOR-SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 360,869, dated April 12, 1887.

Application filed December 15,1886. Serial No. 221,613. (No model.) l

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Myinvention relates to that class of support for the feet of radiators and stoves having for its object the preservation of the carpet or other covering for the floor, by rendering it unnecessary to cut or remove a piece from said covering in spreading it to inclose the base or feet; and the invention consists in the combination and construction as hereinafter described, and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

My invention is fully illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure I is a full-size end elevation of my device. Fig. II is a side elevation. Fig. III is a top plan View. Fig. IV is a section in plan on the dotted line ma of Fig. I. Figs. V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, and X are detail views of a modcation, of which Fig. XI is acomplete View of said details assembled, and Fig. XII is a View of mydevice combined with a radiator.

B is abase, adapted to rest immediately upon the floor and be secured thereto by screws passing through the holes b.

C is a top, upon which the radiator foot or base immediately rests. The surface of top C is roughened, as shown, to prevent the radiator from slippingthereon, and spurs c, rising at right angles to said surface and disposed upon its perimeter, still further prevent any displacement of the radiator.

Connecting the base B and top C, and in effect integral with both, is a web, D, long enough to supply ample strength to thesupport, and in cross-section comparatively narrow, as seen in Fig. IV, and beveled away on each end to form an edge in elevation.

In operation, the base B, securely bolted to the floor, is covered by the carpet, and the con-V figuration of the webiD permits the outside edges of each strip to be brought upon each side of the web, to be brought together at each end of the web without leaving any folds or wrinkles in the even surface of the carpet, and said configuration of web D permitsa simple slit in the carpet, where the support would not come opposite asea-m therein, to suffice to adapt the carpet to cover the base B of the support.

-Heretofore radiators have required, when placed in the center of apartments or at any distance from the walls thereof, that pieces of the carpetshould be removed to seat them upon the iloor, which mutilation is a great injury to a carpet which may have to be changed in the saine room or removed to others.

In Fig. XI my device is shown built up of sections, divided as follows: The base B, having the web D solid therewith, has a flat surface at the topof the web, in which, coincident With the length of the web, a dovetail groove, d, is sunk,open at one end, and having Va screwsocket, e, at its mouth. Into the groove d fits a corresponding rib or cleat, f, upon a section, E, havinga shoulder upon each side of its cleat adapted to conform to and rest upon the top of section B when the cleat is slid into the groove d. rlhe part E has a screw-hole in the end of its cleat coinciding with the socket e when combined with the base, and a screw fastens the two sect-ions. The section E has a roughened upper surface, and centrally sunk in said surface is a screw-socket, g. The other section, which, with the one E, forms in effect the section or part C of Fig. I, and lettered F in Fig. XI, consists in a plate adapted to rest upon the corresponding surface of part E and be secured thereto by a screw passing into socket g through an opening, i. The upper surface of plate F is roughened, as shown, and the spurs c rise therefrom. The section B may be leveled and screwed to the floor and have the carpet drawn around it without the interference of the projecting flange formed by the top of the support,77 and when the radiator is removed for the summer the section B may be left in place, to facilitate the replacing ofthe radiator without being itself in the way. When the section B is adj usted to the radiator and combined with the carpet, the sections E and F, which may be in one, may be combined with section B, to complete the support; but by forming the section F adjustable upon the one E, as shown, the one F may be turned before being finally clamped, to present its spurs c in the most favorable position to hold the feet of different radiators from slipping.

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I am aware that a support has been made to extend from the Wall to hold up radiators, While adapted to facilitate its being Vcovered upon one side bythe carpet, and I make no claim thereto.

Without a departure from the spirit of my invention, the groove d, in place of being in the top of the web, as shown in the drawings, may be placed in the hase, and the cleat f formed upon the bottom ot' the web, by means of which, when the rest ofthe support is taken away, the base in position may be covered completely by the carpet until itis desired to set up the radiator.

Now, having described my invention, what I claim isl. The Within-described improved support forstoves and radiators, consisting of atop, C, having a dat upper face provided with retaining-spurs e upon the perimeter of said surface and at right angles thereto, a base, B, of the form of a frustum of a cone or pyramid and perforated to form screw-holes for securing it to the iloor, and a web, D, surmounting the base, supporting the top C, and joined to both, and in conguration having a reduced diameter relative to that of the top and base, and having Wedge-shaped opposite vends, all co1nbined and arranged as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In supports for radiators, a base, B, ofthe form approximately of a truncated cone or pyramid and provided with screw-holes b, a web, D, arranged upon top of the base and integral therewith, having Wedge-shaped ends and provided upon top with a groove, d, and socket e, and a top, C, having a flat bearingsurfaee and spurs c upon the peri meter thereof', a cleat, f, and screw-hole corresponding with socket e, all arranged as set forth.

3. In radiator-supports, the combination of a base, B, in the form of a truncated cone or pyramid and provided with screwholes b, a web, D, of reduced dimension in one direction relative to the base B, with beveled ends having a groove, d, and socket e, and arranged to surinount said base, a plate, E, provided with cleat f, screw-hole corresponding with socket e and with socket g, and plate F, provided with spurs e upon its perimeter, and p with screw and screw-hole opposite the socket y, all arranged to operate as and for the purpose set forth.

ELMER M. FELL.

Witnesses:

R. F. HYDE, XV. H. BURRALL. 

